Faced with the conversation he’d anticipated, Hyuk Joo covered his forehead with his hand.
Even if CPR was performed, there was no hope.
That was a fact everyone in the room knew. But no one dared to voice it.
The choice was handed over to Hyuk Joo, the guardian, under the guise of hoping for a miracle that had almost zero chance of happening, that one should try their best.
Hyuk Joo felt parched.
Suddenly, the moment of his mother’s death came to mind.
The maternal family had already signed the consent form refusing CPR.
It was because they wanted to send off their daughter, who had endured a tough fight against the disease, peacefully in the end.
The latecoming father had implored the doctor to take all possible measures. However, the mother’s condition only worsened, and eventually, cardiac arrest occurred.
The vivid image of the doctor performing CPR amid the father’s anguished cries came to mind.
The sound of the ribs cracking with each chest compression, ‘crack, crack,’ was vivid in his ears.
His mother’s end was a huge shock to Hyuk Joo.
The image of his mother’s small, frail body jolting each time the defibrillator was applied made his eyes well up.
“Vicepresident.”
In Woo called out to Hyuk Joo, who was lost in thought. Hyuk Joo spoke with his eyes closed.
“Even if she undergoes that, it doesn’t mean she will regain consciousness.”
“We should try our best until the end…”
In Woo’s voice trailed off.
He empathized fully with Hyuk Joo’s thoughts. There was no hope even if CPR was administered after cardiac arrest.
Whether it was right to pour drugs into the patient’s body and try all possible methods under the banner of ‘doing one’s best’ was something even In Woo couldn’t easily decide.
Opening his eyes, Hyuk Joo furrowed his smooth forehead.
“It would be best to let her go in peace in the end.”
“……”
In Woo silently nodded.
Hyuk Joo raised his head to look at the bed surrounded by medical staff.
‘My mom, you know. Sometimes when I watch her, it seems like she’s pretending to sleep just to tease me. She’s too beautiful to believe she’s a sick person.’
The image of Eun Soo sitting by the bedside and talking with a smile came to mind.
Her voice echoed in his ears, choked up with the wish that if there ever came a time to send her mother away, she hoped she would look like this.
Hyuk Joo spoke in a subdued voice, his face hardened.
“We will not be performing CPR.”
He could not let Eun Soo, who came late, see her mother’s last moments in such a tragic state.
“You’ve made the right decision.”
In Woo respected Hyuk Joo’s decision. Now, his job was to strive to keep her mother alive until Eun Soo arrived.
But.
Beep.
A sharp alarm rang out and silence fell over the once bustling space.
The attending physician pronounced death in a heavy voice. The wails of the bereaved family erupted before his words even finished.
Hyuk Joo expelled a breath of despair and walked towards the bed. The nurses were organizing the lines attached to Eun Soo’s mother.
“Let’s wait until Eun Soo arrives.”
No one objected to Hyuk Joo’s words or insisted on moving the body to the mortuary.
In the heavy atmosphere that filled the hospital room, the medical staff looked around and left the room.
“Our dear lady… She’s so pitiful, what do we do, what do we do.”
At the weeping voice of the bereaved family, Hyuk Joo slowly removed his suit jacket. The sheet covering Eun Soo’s mother was too thin.
Covering her with the suit jacket seemed insufficient.
Without hesitation, Hyuk Joo embraced Hyeyon’s body.
He held her small, thin body in his arms until Eun Soo arrived.
To keep her warmth from disappearing.
Eun Soo woke up from a long dream, her eyes widening in surprise.
Tears were falling down her nose. They had soaked her hair due to her tilting her head slightly while she slept.
Wiping her wet face with her hand, Eun Soo sat up properly in her seat.
Cars lined up bumper to bumper filled her view from the front window.
How could the traffic be so heavy on a weekday afternoon?
Eun Soo furrowed her brow.
The driver holding the steering wheel seemed anxious, repeatedly tapping his fingertips. As he glanced back and forth, noticing Eun Soo was awake, he let out a sigh.
“A tanker truck overturned ahead.”
“Ah…”
So that was why the traffic was so heavy.
“They told me to take you to the hospital as soon as possible…”
“Huh?”
“The vice president asked me to call him when you wake up.”
There was a note of awkwardness in the driver’s voice.
Eun Soo pulled her phone out of her bag.
When she turned on the silent phone, an alarm for missed calls and a few messages appeared simultaneously.
The phone slipped from Eun Soo’s hand as she saw the most recent message.
It was a message from the bereaved family saying that her mother was in critical condition.
Eun Soo completely forgot that she had to call Hyuk Joo.
“Driver…”
“Yes.”
“Isn’t there a detour… any other way?”
“We have to go 5 kilometers further, but with this traffic… I’m sorry.”
The driver lowered his voice as if it was his fault. Seeing the distance sign indicating they were still far from Seoul, Eun Soo could only bite her lips.
She twisted her hands anxiously on her knees. The back of her tightly clasped hands turned white.
The inside of the car was heavy with a gloomy silence.
Thankfully, the traffic which had piled up like a parking lot began to slowly disperse, likely due to the accident being resolved.
Eun Soo couldn’t keep track of how much time had passed since she had received the message about her mother being in critical condition.
As soon as the car parked in front of the hospital, Eun Soo headed straight for the elevator. Even in her anxiety, her hand was wrapped around her stomach.
It was an instinctive action.
As she stepped out on the floor where the patient room was located, she made eye contact with a nurse who always greeted her with a smile. The nurse, however, had a startled expression and quickly looked away from Eun Soo.
“…..”
The closer she got to her mother’s patient room, the more her heart felt like it was pounding out of her chest.
When she arrived at the patient room with unsteady steps, a few staff members with troubled faces were standing there. None of them greeted Eun Soo when they saw her.
Eun Soo grabbed the door handle of the patient room.
With her trembling hand, she turned the door handle. The door opened, but Eun Soo couldn’t easily step inside the patient room.
There was no sound coming from the inside of the patient room.
Usually at this time, the bereaved family would have the radio on, playing a show hosted by a male and female comedian.
There should have been laughter and chatter as someone read out the story sent in by a listener, but the room was completely silent, as if all sound had been removed.
When she raised her head, she saw the figure of the bereaved family member holding onto the window frame and sobbing.
Eun Soo slowly moved her gaze towards her mother’s bed.
She could see Hyuk Joo’s broad, sturdy back.
As if he was trying to protect something, his broad shoulders were hunched.
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Why She Is Still Unmoved (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: He uses various methods to seek her affection, but she remains unmoved.
Synopsis:
Si Qingyu is a doctor who has saved countless lives and enjoys tranquility.
Luo Shaoxuan is ruthless, deeply scheming, and the top young master in the capital. He admires Si Qingyu.
Luo Shaoxuan: I want to be the only one in your eyes and heart.
Features a cold and calm female lead vs A noble and scheming male lead.
There will be both sweetness and torture towards the male after their marriage.
